The Riddle Anthem Jack Holiday and Mike Candys

” The Riddle Anthem ” is by Jack Holiday and Mike Candys, the two Swiss producers and DJs. Jack Holiday ( Christian Korcan ) is a Zurich based producer, DJ and songwriter who has remixed tracks for a variety of artists including Inna & Flo Rida and John Silver.
Mike Candys ( Michael Kull ) is a Swiss music producer and dance DJ. He rose to fame in Switzerland with ” La Serenissima ” and teamed up with Jack Holiday to remix the Faithless song ” Insomnia “, which charted in many European countries.
” The Riddle Anthem ” was written by Nik Kershaw, Jack Holiday and Mike Candys and produced by the latter two. The song was released on the 19th November 2012 by electro house record label Wombatmusic ( Sirup ).
The song is a cover of Nik Kershaw’s ” The Riddle “, which was released on the 19th of November 1984 and reached a peak of number three in both the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Nik Kershaw had eight singles that entered the Top Forty in the United Kingdom. In September of 1983, he released his debut single ” I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me ” which peaked at number forty-seven on the UK Singles Chart and became a hit in Scandinavia, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Nik wrote and co-produced ” The One and Only “, a UK Number One by Chesney Hawkes.
Lyrically ” The Riddle ” is meaningless, at the time of the original release many music critics and public alike failed to understand what the song’s lyrics meant. In an interview, Nik shed some light on the song ” In short, [the song ] is nonsense, rubbish, bollocks, the confused ramblings of an 80s pop star “.
” The Riddle Anthem ” was a commercial success for Jack Holiday and Mike Candys. In Switzerland the song entered the Swiss Singles Chart on the 9th of December 2012 and reached a peak of number twenty-six, spending six weeks on the chart there.
The song was also a hit in Germany, Austria and France. Although it was released in Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands it failed to chart. It was not released in the United Kingdom or the United States.